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Post by sdm3 on Mar 29, 2018 0:24:34 GMT
What films would make up your personal marathon of WW2 movies? Assume you wanted to cover the general timeline of the war ie I personally wouldn't choose two movies focusing on the same event.
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Post by sostie on Mar 29, 2018 1:06:49 GMT
Life & Death Of Colonel Blimp
Dunkirk
Battle Of Britain
A Matter Of Life & Death
Das Boot
Ice Cold In Alex
Bridge On The River Kwai
Come & See
Thin Red Line
A Bridge Too Far
The Longest Day
Hope & Glory
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Post by Marv on Mar 29, 2018 1:52:06 GMT
If I’m being honest I don’t know all the exact moments of the war to say what the timeline should be...but here’s a list of the ones I’d watch...
Saving Private Ryan
Fury
The Great Escape
Enemy at the Gates
Casablanca
The tv series Band of Brothers would be my first choice but I’d need an entire day just to watch that one show, so I won’t include it with the films.
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 29, 2018 1:58:15 GMT
In no order:
The Steel Helmet
Attack!
Bataan!
49th Parallel
The Enemy Below
Guns of Navarone
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line (both original and remake)
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Post by anthonyrocks on Mar 29, 2018 2:35:17 GMT
The Longest Day
Von Ryan's Express
The Great Escape
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Saving Private Ryan
Enemy at the Gates
U-571
Dunkirk
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Post by alpha128 on Mar 29, 2018 3:19:34 GMT
The only World War II movie I own is "Where Eagles Dare", so it's going to be a rather short marathon.
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Post by marth on Mar 29, 2018 3:30:16 GMT
Das Boot
Der Untergang
Where Eagles Dare
Dunkirk
Valkyrie
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Mar 29, 2018 4:32:52 GMT
My favorites, unsure of chronology:
The Thin Red Line [1998]
The Human Condition trilogy
Fires on the Plain [1959]
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2018 4:38:25 GMT
I haven't seen that many WWII movies, and own only a few.
Dunkirk
Valkyrie
Twelve O'Clock High
Patton
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Post by Sulla on Mar 29, 2018 6:44:33 GMT
I've thought about doing this sort of thing before. It's difficult to get it perfect because some films are too broad (Patton, The Big Red One). Some such as Slaughterhouse-Five have only small parts I would include (Dresden scenes). Here's a first attempt, though.
The dates I've listed are approximate and just for reference in order to choose how to line the film settings up chronologically.
WEST
1939 - Talvisota (The Winter War) (1989)
Dec 1939 - The Battle of the River Plate (Pursuit of the Graf Spee) (1956)
1940 - Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
1940 - Dunkirk (2017)
1940 - Mrs Miniver (1942)
Sept 1940 - The Battle Of Britain (1969)
1940 - Hope and Glory (1987)
1941 - The Dam Busters (1955)
April 1941 - The Desert Rats (1953)
May 1941 - Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
1941 - Das Boot (1981)
1941 - Casablanca (1942)
1942 - Age of Heroes (2011)
1942 - Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
1942 - Sahara (1943)
1942 - Stalingrad (1993)
1942 - Enemy At The Gates (2001)
1943 - Cross Of Iron (1977)
1943 - Come and See (1985)
1943 - Flame and Citron (2008)
1943 - The Guns of Navarone (1961)
1943 - Operation Crossbow (1965)
1943 - The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
1943 - The Great Escape (1963)
1943 - Memphis Belle (1990)
1943 - Anzio (1968)
1944 - Where Eagles Dare (1968)
1944 - Band of Brothers miniseries (2001)
1942 - 1944 - Catch-22 (1970)
June 1944 - The Longest Day (1962)
June 1944 - Saving Private Ryan (1998)
July 1944 - Valkyrie (2008)
Aug 1944 - Is Paris Burning? (1966)
1944 - The Train (1964)
1944 - Red Tails (2012)
Sept 1944 - A Bridge Too Far (1977)
1945 - Murphy's War (1971)
1945 - Hart's War (2002)
1945 - The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
1945 - Fury (2014)
1945 - Downfall (2004)
1945 - Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin (2009)
1945 - Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)
1945 - The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
EAST
1900-1930s - Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011)
1937 - The Flowers of War (2011)
1941 - Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
1942 - Midway (1976)
1942 - The Thin Red Line (1998)
1942 - Kokoda (2006)
1942 - The Pacific miniseries (2010)
March 1943 - The Sea Wolves (1980)
1943 - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
1943 - The Caine Mutiny (1954)
1943 - Hell in the Pacific (1968)
1944 - The Great Raid (2005)
1944 - Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
1945 - Japan's Longest Day (1967)
1945 - Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Mar 29, 2018 6:51:16 GMT
Dunkirk
Das Boot
Saving Private Ryan
Letters From Iwa Jima
Schindler's List
5 perspectives, 5 locations.
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Post by outrider127 on Mar 29, 2018 13:51:06 GMT
Old 40's movies: Wake Island(1942)
Bataan(1943)
Sahara(1943)
Objective Burma(1945)
Desperate Journey(1942)
The North Star(1943)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo(1942)
Others:
Attack And Retreat(1966)
Bridge On River Quai(1957)
The Bridge At Remagen(1969)
Hell In The Pacific(1969)
Enemy At The Gates(2004)
Von Ryan's Express(1965)
Dunkirk(2017)
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 29, 2018 21:33:51 GMT
...and a few more:
Stalingrad
Idi I Smotri
Cross of Iron
White Tiger
Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich (doc)
Kelly's Heroes (for comic relief)
When Trumpets Fade
A Midnight Clear
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 29, 2018 21:50:24 GMT
I've thought about doing this sort of thing before. It's difficult to get it perfect because some films are too broad (Patton, The Big Red One). Some such as Slaughterhouse-Five have only small parts I would include (Dresden scenes). Here's a first attempt, though.
The dates I've listed are approximate and just for reference in order to choose how to line the film settings up chronologically.
WEST
1939 - Talvisota (The Winter War) (1989)
Dec 1939 - The Battle of the River Plate (Pursuit of the Graf Spee) (1956)
1940 - Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
1940 - Dunkirk (2017)
1940 - Mrs Miniver (1942)
Sept 1940 - The Battle Of Britain (1969)
1940 - Hope and Glory (1987)
1941 - The Dam Busters (1955)
April 1941 - The Desert Rats (1953)
May 1941 - Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
1941 - Das Boot (1981)
1941 - Casablanca (1942)
1942 - Age of Heroes (2011)
1942 - Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
1942 - Sahara (1943)
1942 - Stalingrad (1993)
1942 - Enemy At The Gates (2001)
1943 - Cross Of Iron (1977)
1943 - Come and See (1985)
1943 - Flame and Citron (2008)
1943 - The Guns of Navarone (1961)
1943 - Operation Crossbow (1965)
1943 - The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
1943 - The Great Escape (1963)
1943 - Memphis Belle (1990)
1943 - Anzio (1968)
1944 - Where Eagles Dare (1968)
1944 - Band of Brothers miniseries (2001)
1942 - 1944 - Catch-22 (1970)
June 1944 - The Longest Day (1962)
June 1944 - Saving Private Ryan (1998)
July 1944 - Valkyrie (2008)
Aug 1944 - Is Paris Burning? (1966)
1944 - The Train (1964)
1944 - Red Tails (2012)
Sept 1944 - A Bridge Too Far (1977)
1945 - Murphy's War (1971)
1945 - Hart's War (2002)
1945 - The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
1945 - Fury (2014)
1945 - Downfall (2004)
1945 - Anonyma: A Woman in Berlin (2009)
1945 - Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)
1945 - The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
EAST
1900-1930s - Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale (2011)
1937 - The Flowers of War (2011)
1941 - Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
1942 - Midway (1976)
1942 - The Thin Red Line (1998)
1942 - Kokoda (2006)
1942 - The Pacific miniseries (2010)
March 1943 - The Sea Wolves (1980)
1943 - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
1943 - The Caine Mutiny (1954)
1943 - Hell in the Pacific (1968)
1944 - The Great Raid (2005)
1944 - Letters From Iwo Jima (2006)
1945 - Japan's Longest Day (1967)
1945 - Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
You're fancy. I really liked Operation Crossbow. In addition to that I would have: Camp on Blood Island The Great Escape Guns of Navarone Bridge on the River Kwai Battle of the Bulge Desert Commados Dirty Heroes Battle of the Commandos Five For Hell Play Dirty Where Eagles Dare The Eagle Has Landed The Inglorious Bastards Force Ten From Navarone The Passage Escape To Victory |
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Post by Sulla on Mar 29, 2018 22:12:03 GMT
I really liked Operation Crossbow.
I haven't seen it in years, but I remember it's one of the few films which depict German aviator, Hanna Reitsch.
I'll have to check out some of the films on your list which I haven't seen. I forgot about Battle of the Bulge. I loved that movie when I was young, but I later realized how terribly inaccurate it is. Oh well, they all have some degree of inaccuracy.
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 29, 2018 22:15:49 GMT
In Which We Serve / Noel Coward and David Lean (1942)
One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing / Michael Powell and Emric Pressburger (1942)
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo / Mervyn LeRoy (1944)
They Were Expendable / John Ford (1945)
A Walk In the Sun / Lewis Milestone (1945)
The Sands Of Iwo Jima / Allan Dwan (1949)
Twelve O’Clock High / Henry King (1949)
Mister Roberts / John Ford, Mervyn Leroy (1955)
The Americanization Of Emily / Arthur Penn (1964)
The Longest Day / Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki (1962)
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Post by twothousandonemark on Mar 29, 2018 23:44:54 GMT
If I were to do this over a week, 7 films... which I'm not sure I could mentally or emotionally endure... in some WWII chrono order...
Schindler's List
Das Boot
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Casablanca
The Thin Red Line
Enemy at the Gates
The Longest Day
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 30, 2018 0:15:46 GMT
I haven't seen it in years, but I remember it's one of the few films which depict German aviator, Hanna Reitsch.
I'll have to check out some of the films on your list which I haven't seen. I forgot about Battle of the Bulge. I loved that movie when I was young, but I later realized how terribly inaccurate it is. Oh well, they all have some degree of inaccuracy.
Yeah that was fascinating. The first third of the film feels like a German The Right Stuff. I like one scene where they show the graves of the previous test pilots and you assume she one of them, then we see her rocket flying by in the distance. Also, the resistance people are shown to be ruthless too--an unusually highly suspenseful film due to the stakes of both sides. Like Anthony Quayle seeking the identity of the enemy agent. Desert Commandos and some others are really just melodrama Italian-made WW 2 movies but that one in particular is interesting as it has the same plot as The Eagle Has Landed. Much less ambitious though. |
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Post by Sulla on Mar 30, 2018 1:01:02 GMT
Yeah that was fascinating. The first third of the film feels like a German The Right Stuff. Ha! I never thought of it like that.  I just added it to my Netflix queue to give it another viewing. |
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